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11-28-06

It was VERY nice out tonight and actually reached a record high earlier in the day. I decided to make a night of it and set out for some very long exposures.
Back to the ol' tree. Some high cirrus clouds come floating in leaving some thin streaks in front of the moon.
A little long exposure this time which allowed the tree to pick up more light from the street lamp way off to the left.
My first LOOONG exposure of the night. This one was right around 42 minutes when I came back outside and realized my neighbor had turned on his outside light which really allowed WAY too much light into the shot. I still sort of like the way it turned out. I learned where the North Star was after I took this shot.
I saw this shot to my left as I was waiting for the last shot. It sort of reminded me of a good Halloween picture with the leafless trees and eerie feel to the scene.
I allowed the moon to barely peer around the tree to allow a little more light in but not totally blow it out at the same time.
I managed to capture the North Star in the bottom right of the shot, but after viewing full screen on the computer after I went inside, I noticed that the picture had taken on a TON of long exposure noise. I soon found out that I can actually correct this directly in my camera. This was a 36 minute exposure.
Another little line of clouds moved in from the southwest and I wanted something a little different to break up the extra long shots.
Before this last one, I tried two different hour long exposures which didn't turn out at all. I was pretty disappointed so I grabbed one last moon shot and called it a night.

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